Hook.



No. 731,019. PATENTED JUNE 16, 1903;

.F. M. GHAND'LER.

HOOK.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 5, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED I STATES Patented June 16, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. CHANDLER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H. FAXON AND EDWARD L. PARKER, OF BUFFALO, NE\V YORK.

HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,019, dated June 16, 1903. Application filed April 5,1901. Serial No, 54,447. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. CHANDLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of 'Bufialo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hook, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of the hook member of a hookand-eye fastening; for garments; and the object of my invention is to provide a hook of simple construction that will hold an eye without danger of accidental displacement of the eye and yet permit a quick and easy separation when desired, and this object I attain by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and as hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the hook and eye; Fig. 2, a section on the line on y of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a rear end elevation.

My improved hook is constructed of a single length of resilient wire. This wire is preferably round in form. I bend it into the form best shown in Fig. l. of the drawings, where A denotes the hook; a a, the shank; b, the bill of the hook; c c, the anchorageloops, by which the hook is attached to a garment, and d the guard bar or obstruction which prevents accidental unhooking of eye B when hooked thereto.

As will be seen, the wire out of which hook A is constructed is so folded as to provide two strands of unequal length. For most uses bill I) is made short, so that the inclosed space between it, shank a a, and bar d is. just sufficient to accommodate the wire in eye B without space for play, as represented in Fig. 2. From the end of shank a a, the strands of wire are bent outwardly in the same plane, that from a terminating at e constituting a part of loop 0. That from a is bent outwardly, forwardly, inwardly, crossing shank a a in the rear of the hook propeigthence rearwardly, the extreme'end meeting the end of the shorter strand, providing loops 0 and c of equal size and the same in form.

It will be observed that that portion of wire which extends across the shank, termed guard d, is placed exterior to the hook proper and is so disposed that the space between it and the end of bill I) is less than the diameter of the wire in eye B, so that whenever the bow of the eye enters the hook or leaves it pressure must be applied against the guard to force it away. lVhenever the eye enters or leaves the hook, the guard is moved to the position represented by the dotted lines f, but resumes its normal position when relieved from the pressure.

Obviously slight changes may be made in the construction of my improved hook without departing from the spirit of the inventionas, for instance, the bill of the hook may be made proportionally longer and the space between bill and shank widened, the essential requirement in relation to guard-bar d being that there shall be no space under the guard-bar or between guard-bar and bill through which the eye can escape without applied pressure against obstruction d; also,

the position of the junction of the ends of the wire in loop 0 may be varied by giving proportionally greater length to the shorter strand and lesser length to the longer strand.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my improved hook is extremely simple in form, is pleasing in appearance, is efficient for the purpose designed, and can bemanufactured from a minimum amount of material and with no waste and at a cost but little, if any, more than that of the simplest form of garmenthook.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-v 1. The herein-described garment-hook-for use with an eye of ordinary constructionformed of a single length of wire folded on itself, providing two strands of unequal length, the strands bent to provide a shank having a hook proper at one end, an attaching-loop on each side of the shank at the rear end of the hook proper formed by bending, from the rear end of the shank, the shorter strand outwardly, the longer strand outwardly, forwardly, inwardly across the shank at a distance from the point of the bill less than the diameter of the wire in the eye, thence bent rearwardly, meeting the reverse end of the wire, that portion of the wire disposed across the shank, opposite the hook proper, constituting a guard that prevents accidental unhooking of an eye from the hook, all substantially as described.

2. In a garment-hook, for hooks and eyes, made of a single length of resilient wire, the combination of a bill, a shank, two anchorloops and a guard-bar; the bill and shank composed of two parallel strands of wire united at the point of the bill, the anchorloops and guard-bar formed by an outwardly bending ofthe wire from the rear end of the shank, one of the strands bent outwardly,

forwardly, inwardly across the shank, then rearwardly, meeting the end of the other strand of wire, that portion of the wire which crosses the shank, and forins'the guard-bar, disposed in the rear of the hook proper at a distance therefrom less than the diameter of the wire in the eye, all substantially as shown and described.

3. In a hook-and-eye fastening for garments, A B, the herein-described hook member, comprising two-strand shank a a, hook proper b, anchor-loops c and c, and guardbar (Z; the anchor-loops and guard-bar 

